On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 15:29 -0500, René Berber wrote: > Chadwick wrote: > > > Cygwin is currently installed on over a hundred windows 2003 servers, and is > > used to do some admin tasks as well as to pull files from the servers on a > > daily basis via ssh. One of the files pulled from each server is a windows > > ZIP file. > > > > I want to add an extra file to this ZIP file using a script. I looked at > > both DOS batch scripts and cygwin shell scripts but have run into problems > > because the cygwin installed on these boxes doesnt contain ZIP.exe, and the > > PKZIP.exe I would used with a batch script is so old it only accepts 8.3 > > filenames. > > > > Updating the servers with new cygwin or command line packages is not an > > option at this point. > [snip] > > Any suggestions? > > Use java, specifically `jar` which is just a fancy unzip-then-call-java > thingy, > and it also does just work as zip (with tar like use). > > Just do: > > jar -h > jar -tvf your.zip > jar -cvf another.zip files... > > Remember to use only DOS/Windows paths.
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